Well, got 'er stripped down to the camshafts, so next they come out and the head comes off. It's been a fairly uneventful day with challenges primarily of accessing bolts with various combinations of extensions, etc. It took me 10 hours to strip it down to here, and I'm a half hour from loosening the head bolts. Should be about the same to reassemble.
I'm videotaping, and keeping a tool list. So far it seems like I will be able to make a workable video of this and frankly speaking there will be a lot of time savings. For instance, I was able to leave the intake manifold in the engine bay wrapped in the wiring loom. That left out the pain in the butt step where you have to disconnect just about every single wire in the engine and pull it up through the intake manifold. The repeat the process without breaking any wires, or accidentally routing them the wrong way around component B, etc.
There were several steps I found were not neccessary, and will call them out as well.
Got stalled this evening when I realized I needed a 30mm (thanks ScottM) socket to rotate the engine before pulling the camshafts. Scott checked on his back in Michigan and a 1 and 1/4 will also fit well enough just to spin the engine. So I had dinner and hunted one down from a buddy (stores area all closed). Thought I'd check in here while my fingers were clean.
Strangely, still no sign of water intrusion. I can look right up the exhaust ports of the head and they're all uniformely grey. Had another look in the spark plug holes also. Even though we've driven it a hundred miles or so before getting the oil analysis, there's not a single difference between the plugs or piston tops that I can see down there. Strange. Hope Blackstone didn't get my oil sample mixed up.....
Hopefully, I'll pull the head and see a clear problem with the gasket that's not routing the water through the cylinders, such as a failure between an oil and water port.
DougM
I'm videotaping, and keeping a tool list. So far it seems like I will be able to make a workable video of this and frankly speaking there will be a lot of time savings. For instance, I was able to leave the intake manifold in the engine bay wrapped in the wiring loom. That left out the pain in the butt step where you have to disconnect just about every single wire in the engine and pull it up through the intake manifold. The repeat the process without breaking any wires, or accidentally routing them the wrong way around component B, etc.
There were several steps I found were not neccessary, and will call them out as well.
Got stalled this evening when I realized I needed a 30mm (thanks ScottM) socket to rotate the engine before pulling the camshafts. Scott checked on his back in Michigan and a 1 and 1/4 will also fit well enough just to spin the engine. So I had dinner and hunted one down from a buddy (stores area all closed). Thought I'd check in here while my fingers were clean.
Strangely, still no sign of water intrusion. I can look right up the exhaust ports of the head and they're all uniformely grey. Had another look in the spark plug holes also. Even though we've driven it a hundred miles or so before getting the oil analysis, there's not a single difference between the plugs or piston tops that I can see down there. Strange. Hope Blackstone didn't get my oil sample mixed up.....
Hopefully, I'll pull the head and see a clear problem with the gasket that's not routing the water through the cylinders, such as a failure between an oil and water port.
DougM